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What Are the Best Web and Email Hosts?

Posted by Cliff on from the best-network-service-for-your-bucks dept.

GreyPoopon asks: "My wife has been running a small business for a couple years now. She is currently paying for web hosting services for a domain, but has elected not to put up a web site (she doesn't need more business), instead using the service only for sending and receiving email. Recently, the hosting service has become less and less responsive, and attempts to switch monthly bills to a different credit card have been completely ignored, and she's now looking for a new provider. She's interested in both hosting service providers as well as email-only providers that will allow her to use her existing domain name with up to five mailboxes. What are the best choices, these days?"

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  1. 2 comments by dJCL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you want reliability, hop over to netcraft.com and check their list of most reliable hosting providers. Then just get some hosting from them.

    Cheap, but with control, try something that gives you shell/root access. I would recommend serverpronto.com (29.95/month dedicated servers) but their ip range is in a globally spam blocked range - almost no one will get your mail. Otherwise I recommend linode - no spam issues, and scalable usage options.

    Of course this is based on the assumption that you are willing to setup your own mail server - if not, well many of the other messages here should help some.

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  2. Re:The problem with hosting by fm6 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nonsense. If you don't trust your hosting provider to be around in a year, you shouldn't go near them. If your site is at all important to you, you need to look for a company with a solid reputation. If it has that, then you're perfectly safe paying them a year in advance. And if it doesn't, you're wasting all the money you do give them -- there's no point in having a web site if you can't count on its availability.

  3. Re: You're a naughty one... by phutureboy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since it doesn't cost any more money to those who click on the link, I fail to see the damage.

    Actually, despite the reassurances, it leaves some of us wondering whether you really meant what you said.

  4. Re: You're a naughty one... by jea6 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The terms conflict-of-interest and full disclosure come to mind so I direct you to a guy who put up a referral link and was up-front about it:
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